Category: Prohibition in Global Perspective

• 5 Jul 2025

  Hooch in History, Hooch as History

  From Hoochinoo to Hooch: Alcohol, Race, Power “…a layered history of race, erasure, and colonial power…” Today, ”hooch” is shorthand for cheap, illegal – frequently adulterated – alcohol. The word brings forth images of liquor cooked up in a dingy back shed. Globally often used to refer to the devastation caused by drinking spurious liquor…